Daily Show host Jon Stewart sounded off on Thursday on the apparent differences between God’s two primary messengers: Pope Francis and His “incredibly fallible emissaries on Earth,” the Republican party. “You know your...

To illustrate Republican obstinacy over keeping the U.S. economy on track, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow compared them on Thursday to a nightmarish teenager threatening a parent right after being trusted to drive the family car. “Your kid says...

An Austrian artist on Thursday drew three pictures simultaneously in three European capitals thanks to two robots copying his every movement in real time in Britain and Germany. Alex Kiessling worked in Vienna while a pair of orange industrial...

The Sheriff’s Department in Buchanan County, Missouri has begun using 80,000-volt enhanced handcuffs for prisoner transfers and some court appearances while dismissing potential safety concerns, KQTV-TV reported on Monday. “It...

Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) burgeoning quarrel with his fellow Republicans played out on the Senate floor on Thursday, when party mate Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) accused him and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) of delaying a vote so they could draw more...

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday slammed a Washington women’s forum because he said that MSNBC host Karen Finney and the other “testicle lockboxes” were attacking him. At the “Fair Shot: A Plan For Women...

President Barack Obama appeared Thursday before a noisy and enthusiastic crowd in Largo, MD, and made fun of Republicans’ dire predictions of doom about the Affordable Care Act. He notably dinged one Republican congressman who declared...

Rolling Stone magazine’s Matt Taibbi appeared on Democracy, Now! Thursday to talk about how Wall Street hedge funds are set on sacking the pension funds of public employees. Those funds are the “last great, unguarded piles of money...

The artist who created the iconic “Hope” posters during President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign says he’d choose a different caption now. A camera crew from TMZ asked Shepard Fairey if he’d use the same...

Author and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said in a video released Thursday that if humanity hopes to find other forms of life in this solar system, then our next exploratory missions should target not our interplanetary neighbors, but their...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has vowed to repair a Green Bay bridge that carries 40,000 vehicles a day after it was recently closed when motorists suddenly complained about a 400-foot-long sagging section. After shutting down the Leo Frigo...

A Florida woman will get a new trial after she was sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot in the wall during a dispute with her ex-husband. The 1st District Court of Appeal ordered the retrial after ruling a judge had not properly...

Kentucky’s chapter of College Republicans have dug up one of the weakest “gotcha” moments in recent political memory. The group posted cell phone video of Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes being picked up by her husband at what...

A potentially lethal, flesh-eating narcotic compound is catching on in parts of Arizona. Users inject the drug to get high, and the scaly, rotten patches of necrotic flesh it can leave behind have led to the drug being named...